Principal Technical Program Manager

Yahoo Sports is one of the internet’s leading destinations for comprehensive sports news and innovative fantasy games. We produce insightful content across multiple platforms and curate quality coverage from around the web to inform and entertain fans. We're an original fantasy sports pioneer, with a legacy of innovation that helps us continue to be a fantasy leader. And as one of the most-visited sports platforms on the internet, we're one of the best places for brands to reach fans.

Description

Come join us as we build the future of Sports. You will be working with our Core Sports, Content, and Gen AI teams to completely reimagine how sports fans get the content they need and interactions they crave. This role is for a Principal TPM who is looking for an opportunity to be a true owner and drive impact.

Key Job Responsibilities

The Principal Technical Program Manager will have a close partnership and collaborate with our Product, Engineering, and Design leads. You’ll be responsible for taking ambiguous requirements and ideas, clarifying and refining them into actionable project plans, and leading cross-functional teams to deliver next-generation products. You’ll act as the primary point of contact between technical teams and stakeholders, ensuring clear communication, managing expectations, and navigating competing priorities. Your role also involves extreme risk and dependency management, developing mitigation strategies, driving continuous improvement, and fostering a culture of excellence and innovation within the team. We’re looking for you to contribute new, creative solutions and elevate our TPM team and Sports organization.

Strategic Planning and Execution

• Oversee the development and execution of initiatives to enhance current offerings, expand into new markets, and launch new product lines.

• Execute strategic planning and own the creation, management, and reporting of the roadmap.

• Own program Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) to track progress and drive continuous improvement.

• Drive strategy and execution with minimal direction.

Project and Program Management

• Drive a variety of programs and projects simultaneously, a strong bias for action is critical.

• Identify priorities, define projects and associated milestones to deliver towards our OKRs.

• Work closely with various cross-functional departments, including Product, Engineering, Sales, and Operations, to ensure strategic alignment and efficient execution of initiatives.

• Dive deep into technical systems and understand how they interact.

• Maintain and monitor list of key project and program-level dependencies, risks, and issues.

• Baseline and accelerate the productivity of our teams - product, design, engineering, data science, and more.

Communication and Relationship Building

• Build trusted relationships with the Program Leads and Senior Leadership Team, surfacing major wins, risks, and challenges.

• Manage program communication plans and operating models, ensuring alignment of strategy and execution.

• Support engineering momentum through dashboards and reporting tools, providing insights into delivery and business performance.

• Share actionable signals through key metrics and data.

• Facilitate healthy, productive dialog, build consensus, and own communication up, down, and across.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years experience as a leader in the Technical Program Management function

• 10+ years driving large-scale software projects

• 5+ years experience working in highly iterative environments

• 5+ years experience with iterative experimentation cycles 

• 2+ Experience working with AI, ML, or Data Science programs

• Direct experience working with multiple cross company and central team dependencies

• Investment in building trust and relationships with your partners

• Self-starter who brings organization, direction, and focus

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